System and method for teaching spelling
A computerized system and method of teaching spelling interfaces with an application that captures a user's misspelled words and adds them to a word database. A teacher or instructor may also add words to the word database based on a user's curriculum, cross-curriculum or words of interest. The words in the word database are utilized to automatically create an individualized spelling teaching assignment and spelling Journal for a user. The user corrects any spelling mistakes that he or she has made and performs assignments with new words including hearing the words pronounced, spelling the words and writing sentences using the words. Spelling tests are also assigned. The teacher or instructor monitors the completion of the various assignments by the students and also monitors how well the assignments are performed.
1. A method for providing an individualized spelling assignment containing words to be taught to a user using an automated computer program, the method comprising:
receiving, from a spell checking computer software program, one or more words that a computer user has misspelled while using a computer software application; and
responsive to said misspelled words, automatically creating at least one computerized individualized teaching assignment, accessed by said user utilizing a computer system, for reinforcing proper spelling and usage of said one or more misspelled words.
2. The method of claim 1 , further including, after receiving said one or more misspelled words, storing said one or more misspelled words in a misspelled word database.
3. The method of claim 1 , further including providing a word logger, responsive to said spellchecking computer software program, for receiving the misspelled words which the spellchecking computer software program identifies and for storing the misspelled words in a misspelled words database.
4. The method of claim 1 , further including providing an application software program, responsive to said misspelled words database, for transferring said misspelled words from said misspelled words database to said word database.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said word database is located on a remote server.
6. The method of claim 1 , further including providing a spelling journal application software program, operable by the user, to provide access to said computerized individualized teaching assignment generated in response to said one or more misspelled words.
7. The method of claim 1 , further including a spelling teacher application software program, for allowing a teacher or instructor to add non misspelled words to said word database.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein said non misspelled words include curriculum based words and cross-curriculum based words.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein said non misspelled words entered by said teacher further include a sentence showing proper usage of said non misspelled words.
10. The method of claim 9 , further including a text-to-speech engine, for converting text to audible speech; and
wherein said computerized individualized teaching assignment further includes causing said text-to-speech engine to speak said non misspelled words and corresponding sentences to said user.
11. A method for providing an individualized spelling assignment containing words to be taught to a user using an automated computer program, the method comprising:
receiving, from a spell checking computer software program, one or more words that a computer user has misspelled while using a computer software application;
storing said one or more words that a computer user has misspelled in a word database; and
responsive to at least said misspelled words in said word database, automatically creating at least one computerized individualized teaching assignment, accessed by said user utilizing a computer system, for reinforcing proper spelling and usage of said one or more misspelled words.
12. A method for providing an individualized spelling assignment containing words to be taught to a user using an automated computer program, the method comprising:
receiving from a spell checking computer software program one or more words that a computer user has misspelled while using a computer software application;
receiving from a teacher or instructor non misspelled words to be inserted into said individualized spelling assignment;
storing said one or more misspelled words and non misspelled words in a word database; and
responsive to said one or more misspelled words and said one or more non misspelled words, automatically creating at least one computerized individualized teaching assignment, accessed by said user utilizing a computer system, for reinforcing proper spelling and usage of said one or more misspelled words and said one or more non-misspelled words.
13. An automated system for providing individualized spelling assignments to be taught to a user, said automated system including a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for use with a computer including a processor that is configured to allow a user to run a computer application, said computer program comprising:
a word logger, for receiving from a spell checking computer software program, one or more words that a computer user has misspelled while using a computer application program; and
said automated system further including a spelling journal application software program, embodied on a computer readable medium, and responsive to said one or more misspelled words, for automatically creating at least one individualized spelling assignment to be accessed by said user, said individualized spelling assignment for reinforcing proper spelling and usage of said one or more misspelled words.
14. The system in claim 13 , further including a misspelled words database, coupled to said word logger, for storing said one or more misspelled words
15. The system in claim 14 , further including a word database, for storing said one or more misspelled words and for storing teacher assigned words.
16. The system of claim 15 , wherein said teacher assigned words include curriculum words and cross-curriculum words.
17. The system of claim 15 , wherein said teacher assigned words includes sentences utilizing the words entered by said teacher.
18. The system of claim 17 , further including a text to speech engine, for converting said teacher assigned words and sentences into spoken words and sentences.
19. The system of claim 18 , wherein said spelling journal application allows said user to access said spoken words and sentences during the user's individualized spelling assignment.
20. The system of claim 15 , further including a spelling journal application program, for allowing said user to access said individualized spelling assignment based on said user's misspelled words and said teacher assigned words.
21. The system of claim 13 , further including a spelling journal application program, operative on a computer system, for allowing said user to access said individualized spelling assignment based on said user's misspelled words.